Emeritus Prof Christopher May on Nostr: The defining problem of UK #politics right now is how we have both relatively high ...
The defining problem of UK #politics right now is how we have both relatively high levels of #taxation (see chart below for historic comparison) and yet have failing #publicservices, an #NHS crisis & a general failure to manage the economy.
Some regard it as a problem of a lack of growth & failures in #productivity, others think we have a mismatch between our expectations of being a rich economy & actually (on GDP per capita terms) being less rich than we think?
Does Labour have an answer?
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